The American Quilt - Softcover

Kiracofe, R; Johnson, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400080967 ISBN 13: 9781400080960

Publisher: Crown Publications, 2004

Synopsis

A richly detailed history of one of America's best-loved folk arts features more than 250 full-color images of quilts from the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century; traces the development of quilting techiques, colors, and fabrics; and examines the political, social, and cultural significance of the quilt. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

RODERICK KIRACOFE was cofounder of The Quilt Digest, produced Homage to Amanda: 200 Years of American Quilts, and authored Cloth & Comfort. He has assembled corporate and private quilt collections across the country and curated quilt exhibits here and abroad. He lives in San Francisco.

MARY ELIZABETH JOHNSON wrote her first quilt book in 1976 and has since authored a dozen more craft and home decorating titles. Her latest and final book on the subject will be a history of the quilting in her home state of Alabama. She lives in Montgomery.

For more information, visit www.theamericanquilt.com.

From the Inside Flap:

The most important, comprehensive, and sumptuously illustrated addition to the literature of quilting since i1Quilts in America. Most of the book's 250 stunning full-color quilts have never before been published. With them as a reference, Kiracofe shows us how to read a vocabulary of fabrics, dyes, patterns, and other clues to put quilts in their social and cultural context. Full-color photographs.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400080967
• ISBN 13: 9781400080960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290